A Route 40 (Kitty/ Campbellville) bus driver and his conductor were both brought before a city Magistrate yesterday where they were charged with unlawfully wounding a passenger.
Several Region Five communities are again flooded as a result of heavy rainfall over the past few days, GINA said.
The Guyana Cancer Prevention Society (GCPS) is holding a public lecture on cancer of the cervix at the George-town Public Hospital today at 6 pm.
The Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) has been restructured and will function under new By-Laws as a not-for-profit company, a release from the AOAG said on Friday.
At its meeting last week, Cabinet have its no-objections to a series of major road contracts including one for $67.7m for the Puruni to Itabali Road, Region Seven and another for $63m for Garden of Eden (GoE).
Residents of Port Kaituma in the North West District on Tuesday protested in front of the Matarkai Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) over the state of their roads but relief may soon be on the way as the government has given the green light for $58.8m in road contracts for the region.
Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited has secured a $52.9m contract for the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation.
A South Road resident was yesterday sent behind bars after he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking and entering a city store.
A 57-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession.
Guyana is poised to tap into Central American markets after signing a trade memorandum with Belize.
Nicholai Price, Clerk of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament is currently in London at a workshop on the financial oversight of aid effectiveness hosted by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).
A Japan-financed project to fortify the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) has seen the construction and rehabilitation of six of the network’s 33 intake/relief structures.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s justification, planning and handling of the Iraq War involved a catalogue of failures, a seven-year inquiry concluded yesterday in a scathing verdict on Britain’s role in the conflict.
Several more villages in the hinterland have received their Jubilee grant fund under the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, to implement a green sustainable project.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday shelved plans to cut the U.S.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte publicly accused five police generals of involvement in the drugs trade on Tuesday and said only he would be accountable for a bloody crackdown that has killed 30 people since he took office last week.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC), last Friday, met with the ambassadors (designate) to Brazil and Brussels, Belgium, George Talbot (second from left) and David Hales (third from left) to discuss how they could use their positions to advocate the enhancement of Guyana’s trade, specifically with Brazil, and the use of Hales’ experience in Brussels.
BATON ROUGE, La., (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday it would investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by two white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff presented her written defense to a Senate impeachment trial yesterday, denouncing the proceedings as a farce and saying her alleged crimes were no more than “routine acts of budgetary management.”
(Reuters) – Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Fox News Channel architect Roger Ailes on Wednesday for sexual harassment, claiming her ex-boss wrongfully fired her after she rebuffed years of unwanted advances.
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